Absolutely love organic maps for cycling! It recommendeds sensible routes that are much safer. The only feature I miss (and I know organic maps strives for 100% feature completeness even offline so this would be unlikely to be added) is navigation using public transit in the UK. The national rail app is painfully slow and isn’t easy to just search a location and just go, but it does work. Every bus company has their own app too… I haven’t found a good replacement yet unfortunately :/
I am, and have been, relying on Transportr in multiple European countries, and it’s been a joy. Only problem I’ve had is that additional information from the provider (temporary changes on the route etc.) isn’t there, but that’s no biggie. Sad to hear it’s been unmaintained, hoping it’ll keep working. Though, forking and updating the APIs for future broken providers wouldn’t be too troublesome, right?
There’s also Öffi which was last updated on F-Droid 16 days ago. It does pretty much the same job as Transportr, though it visualises the overview of journeys in a different graphical way than the list of Transportr, which is why I liked Transportr better. However, Öffi has some other neat features that Transportr doesn’t have, such as listing the upcoming departures for all nearby stations/stops at once, based on your location.
I have the opposite experience for city biking at least. OSM / organic takes me on main roads, while gmaps is smart enough to keep me on bike-friendly roads.
Absolutely love organic maps for cycling! It recommendeds sensible routes that are much safer. The only feature I miss (and I know organic maps strives for 100% feature completeness even offline so this would be unlikely to be added) is navigation using public transit in the UK. The national rail app is painfully slow and isn’t easy to just search a location and just go, but it does work. Every bus company has their own app too… I haven’t found a good replacement yet unfortunately :/
Magic Earth (while not FOSS, it’s privacy oriented though) can do this.
There’s also Transportr, but AFAIK it’s been unmaintained for quite a while now, so it may not work / stop working soon.
I am, and have been, relying on Transportr in multiple European countries, and it’s been a joy. Only problem I’ve had is that additional information from the provider (temporary changes on the route etc.) isn’t there, but that’s no biggie. Sad to hear it’s been unmaintained, hoping it’ll keep working. Though, forking and updating the APIs for future broken providers wouldn’t be too troublesome, right?
There’s also Öffi which was last updated on F-Droid 16 days ago. It does pretty much the same job as Transportr, though it visualises the overview of journeys in a different graphical way than the list of Transportr, which is why I liked Transportr better. However, Öffi has some other neat features that Transportr doesn’t have, such as listing the upcoming departures for all nearby stations/stops at once, based on your location.
I have the opposite experience for city biking at least. OSM / organic takes me on main roads, while gmaps is smart enough to keep me on bike-friendly roads.
@dessalines @sassypablo You can try #OSMAnd optional with #BikeRouter
Thx, I’ll give it a try.